Hope remains for troubled community college

There is hope Colac's Otway Community College can be saved after it was placed into voluntary administration earlier this month.

St Laurence College, which has a campus nearby, is considering taking over the college.

The Otway Community College offers support services to people with disabilities, migrants and youth.

Administrator Ivan Glavas says the college is running again and some or all of the 85 jobs which were lost, may now be saved.

"At this stage St Laurance has taken over the staff and with the purpose of continuing operations as they are doing," he said.

"That at this stage is a short-term step ... but I'd imagine we'd be talking to them by the end of this week as to which way they propose to go.

"It's a very good step in the right direction. We can't obviously guarantee anything but the fact that they're there doing their own research suggests that it's going to go in the right direction at this point."